Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----that the Government would be prepared to sign up to a deal with Brazil, whose president has committed to destroying the Amazon and the indigenous communities who live there, in order to increase the profits of a few millionaire beef exporters, and that the Government would move to make it easier for Brazilian and Argentinian beef to come into the European Union, and for German car manufacturers to flog high emissions cars in South America. That makes a mockery of this and calls out the hypocrisy of the Government in terms of any commitment to climate action or climate justice.

Will the Minister make himself abundantly clear on this deal? Has the Taoiseach made it clear to the European Commission that Ireland will oppose this deal? Has he indicated that the Irish State will vote against it? Will we have a binding vote in the Oireachtas on this deal? Will the Government afford to us the opportunity where it has failed to defend farming families, rural Ireland and our planet?

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